11:00 AM

11:05 AM

SGX Welcome

Tinku Gupta

Chief Information Officer, SGX Group

11:05 AM

11:15 AM

STAC Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC

11:15 AM

11:25 AM

STAC Update: Tick Analytics & Risk Computing

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Big Compute

11:25 AM

11:30 AM

Supermicro Accelerate Everything AI

Guan Boon Tan

Senior Field Application Engineer, Supermicro

Big Compute

11:30 AM

11:35 AM

Making Data-driven Decisions on Structured Data with KX Copilot

Warren Yong

Head of Technical Account Management, Asia, KX

Big Compute

11:35 AM

11:40 AM

Accelerating Enterprise AI/HPC Use Cases with Existing IT Infrastructure.

Floyd Christofferson

VP of Product Marketing, Hammerspace

Big Compute

11:45 AM

12:20 PM

Building the bridge: Aligning data strategy with AI ambition

Deep Thomas

Chief Data Officer, Nomura Singapore Limited

Kevin Kwan

Head of Data Science, Enterprise Data, Bloomberg

Andrew Kennedy

Principal Data & AI Consultant, Thorogood

Big Data

12:20 PM

1:20 PM

Lunch

Networking

1:20 PM

1:40 PM

STAC-AI Research & Benchmarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

1:40 PM

1:55 PM

Data Intelligence, Not Data Drag: Enabling AI-Ready Pipelines Across the Enterprise

Chandra Venkatapathy

Field CTO, DDN

1:55 PM

2:35 PM

License to operate: Expanding MLOps for the Agentic era.

Annamalai Arunachalam

Vice President, Bank of America

Manan Lohia

Data Scientist, Zurich Insurance

Stuart Loy

AWS Solutions Architecture Leader, Global Financial Services, Amazon Web Services

2:35 PM

3:05 PM

Break

Networking

3:05 PM

3:15 PM

STAC Update: Fast Data & Fast Compute

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Fast Compute

3:15 PM

3:20 PM

Accelerating Finance with NVIDIA Blackwell: Supermicro’s Next-Gen Infrastructure.

Guan Boon Tan

Senior Field Application Engineer, Supermicro

Fast Compute

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

FMADIO: Breaking Vendor Lock-in with PCAP

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

Fast Compute

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

Harness Equinix High Performance Data Centers to Augment HFT Capabilities

Gareth Bridges

Business Development Director, Financial Services, Asia Pacific, Equinix

Fast Compute

3:35 PM

4:05 PM

Cool running: managing trading colos and data centers to meet today’s demands

Dave Dong

CTO, Hetu Investment HK Limited

Gareth Bridges

Business Development Director, Financial Services, Asia Pacific, Equinix

Louis Liu

CEO, Shengli Technologies

Fast Data

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

Smart & Fast Trading Decisions with Xelera Silva: Harnessing Ultra-Low Latency AI

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

Fast Data

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

ÜberNIC Update: PoC to General Availability…

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Fast Data

4:15 PM

4:20 PM

FPGA Performance, without Compromise

Clement Pelletier

APAC Sales Director, Novasparks

Fast Data

4:25 PM

4:55 PM

Show me some love: Improving the FPGA “Engineer Experience”

Baranidharan Sivapatham

APAC Lead for Ultra Low Latency FPGA Platforms, Barclays

Mathias Herlev

Quantitative Technology Director, Qube Research & Technologies

Ramin Zahed Kaklar

FPGA Team Lead, HexoSys Group

Fast Data

4:55 PM

5:10 PM

Piercing the veil: trade performance analytics and record keeping in an encrypted world

Ken Jinks

Managing Director of Product Management, Pico

Fast Compute

5:10 PM

5:45 PM

Racing the block: keeping up with digital asset trading markets

Sam Ahmed

Former Group COO, DBS Markets, DBS Bank

Karan Dalwani

Director, Head of Account Management, APAC, Talos

David Sung

FSI Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

Matt Cretney

Head of Product Management, Beeks

Khairi Azmi

Head of Institutions, OKX

Fast Data

5:45 PM

6:45 PM

Networking Reception

Networking